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Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
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End Faith Life Spirit Struggle Weapon
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
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Existence God Idol
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
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Creation Destroy Dream Love Person
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.
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Attachment Creation Reality Responsibility World
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
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Judgement Religious
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.
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Beginning End Happiness Life Ourselves Religious Unity
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
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Himself Oneself Patience Religious Wait
The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.
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Force Religious World
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
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Funny Serious
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
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Important Philosophy Time Value Worth
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
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God Ourselves
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
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Death Enemy Fight Grace
But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
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Dare Father Gift Himself Need Secure

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